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Patented June 20, 1893.

(No Model.)

R. W. KING.

RAILWAY GONSTRUGTION. No. 499,925.

Il Q im UNTTED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

RICHARD lV. KING, OF WICHITA, KANSAS.

RAILWAY CONSTRUCTION. A

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 499,925, dated June 20, 1893.

Application filed August 4, 1892. Serial No. 442,099. (No model.) I

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, RICHARD W. KING, a citizen of the UnitedStates of America, residingat Wichita, in the county of Sedgwick and State of Kansas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Railway Construction, of which the following is a specilication, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings and the letters of reference theieomforming a part of this specification, in which- Figure l. is a perspective view of the construction in section, and Fig. 2. is a side elevation of one railway rail and thelongitudinal stringer thereof, and an end View of the cross-ties of the construction, also showing the keepers and their securing bolts, by means of which the rails are held into position, and

the stringere and cross-ties are secured together.

This invention relates to certain improvements in a railway construction designed more especially for steam railways; and consists in certain novel construction and arrangement of metallic stringers and metallic cross-ties, and the manner of securing together the said stringers and cross-ties and railway rails, which improvements are fully set forth and explained in the following specification and pointed out in the claims.

The object of this invention is to re-enforce the railway rails, by the use of the stringers, and to form a support and tie together said stringers by the use of the cross-ties below the surface of the earth forming the road bed, and to provide a means of drainage, by striking depressions in the upper surface of the stringers, to drain any accumulation of water i from the road bed between the railway rails.

Referring to the drawings S represents the stringers, made arched in cross-section, and provided on their crown or upper side with a ilat level surface sufficiently broad to provide a seat for the railway rails R and for keepers B at each side of the rail fiange. Said stringers are preferably made with the side base flanges a, as shown, andare also provided at suitable intervals along their length, in their upper surface, with struck in sections or depressions c, which when the rails R are seated on the stringers form recesses or open ways across under the rails.

D represents the cross-ties, made somewhat of the same general cross-sectional form as the stringers, but-of smaller size, and are placed laterally u nder the opposite stringers, in such manner as to support a stringer at each end, and are provided at each end with an upturned portion d which forms shoulders against which the stringer iianges bear, and serve to gage the width of track and to assist in maintaining the correct position of the stringers on the cross-ties. However the particular form of cross-.ties is not essential, as many other substantial forms may be used with similar results.

The rails R are of the usual pattern and in the construction are seated upon the stringers S as shown in Fig. l, and are held thus seated by means of. the keepers B which are arranged in opposite pairs, as shown, which keepers are held in position by means of the bolts'V which are arranged through corresponding holes of said keepers, of the stringers S and also of the cross-ties D, as represented, having their nuts turned down against the keepers, where they are locked against turning 0E by a means not necessary to describe in this specification.

It is intended that, in constructing a railway, the major portion of the stringers and the cross-ties shall be embedded in the earth establishing the road bed as represented in Fig. l, wherein it is evident that should there be water between the rails R, on the road bed, caused by rain, the melting of snow, dac., it will flow off from said bed through the ways formed by the depressions c of the stringere and thus prevent water fromstanding on said bed long enough to soften the ground and thereby damage the road bed.

Having thus described my invention, what I'claim as new and useful, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is as follows:

1. In the railway construction 'the combi- 95 nation with metallic cross-ties; of metallic stringers arched in cross-section, and provided with depressions in their upper portion, and with a-iiat crown surface; and seated upon said cross-ties; and of keepers for hold- IOO ing the rail-Way rai1s,and binding together upper portion, substantially as and for the the stringers and cross-ties, substantially as purpose set forth. and for the purpose specified.

T 1 2. In therai1-wayconstruction theoombna A RICHARD W' Km (1 5 tion with the metallic cross-ties, of the me- Witnesses:

tallic stringers seated upon said cross-ties, WM. J. HUTCHINS,

and provided with the depressions in their J. J. CRIST. 

